Yardbarker takes $1.5M to connect fans with athlete blogs
Yardbarker, a site that connects sports fans with their favorite athletes via their blogs and other news, has raised $1.5 million in a third round of funding, according to paidContent. Based in Emeryville, Calif., the company allows users to define their preferences — which athletes… Continue Reading
Expensify raises $1M for online expense reporting
Expensify, a startup that offers tools for expense reports that “don’t suck,” announced today that it’s now possible for companies to add a customized, branded version of Expensify to their own websites.
For example, Expensify used their new application programming interface (API) to build an Expensify… Continue Reading
CoTweet raises $1.1M to help companies figure out Twitter
People make a lot of comments, questions and complaints on microblogging service Twitter about companies — if you’re well-known, I imagine it becomes hard to manage pretty quickly. That’s where a startup called CoTweet comes in, helping companies manage their customer relations on Twitter. The… Continue Reading
Yardbarker scores $634K to connect pro athletes with fans
Yardbarker, the blog aggregation site that allows fans to connect with their favorite professional athletes, has raised $634,000 of a targeted $660,000 round of securities. Based in San Francisco, the company allows readers to define preferences for the types of blogs and sports news they… Continue Reading
UserVoice raises $800K for customer feedback systems
UserVoice, provider of online tools used to gather and organize customer feedback, complaints and product requests, has raised $800,000 in a first round of venture capital from Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, Betaworks, David Shen Ventures, Accelerator Group, and several individuals.
Based in Santa Cruz, Calif., the… Continue Reading
Xobni raises $7M to battle Outlook’s email overload
Xobni, a plug-in that tries to improve email organization in Microsoft Outlook, has raised $7 million in a second round of venture financing.
Xobni’s most prominent feature is an inbox sidebar that shows profiles of people you’re corresponding with. By making related content (phone numbers, past… Continue Reading
Social search product Aardvark: Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better
Public details have been scant about the social search product from The Mechanical Zoo, a company chock full of former Googlers that just announced it raised $6 million from August Capital and Baseline Ventures. But for the last three months, I’ve actually been a beta… Continue Reading
Social search startup The Mechanical Zoo cages $6M
The Mechanical Zoo, a social search startup founded by a team of former Google employees, has raised $6 million in a first round of funding.
Like many other companies, such as Delver and AskMeGo, The Mechanical Zoo says it’s trying to tailor web search results to… Continue Reading
HourTown raises $1M for small business scheduling
A new startup called HourTown is entering the crowded market for scheduling websites, and it just raised $1 million to improve its product and promotion.
We’ve been a bit skeptical about whether companies can get much traction in this area, even if they offer a smart,… Continue Reading
More funding for document collaboration: DocVerse raises $1.3M
There already plenty of ways to share and edit documents online, but a startup called DocVerse may be preparing a better solution. The stealthy San Francisco company recently raised $1.3 million from Baseline Ventures, Michael Dearing and undisclosed angel investors.
John Cook of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer… Continue Reading
Iminlikewithyou raises $1.5M for social gaming site
Iminlikewithyou, a startup that began as something close to a dating site and has become closer to a casual game portal and social network over time, has raised a $1.5 million second round tor expansion.
The New York-based company only features its own games on the… Continue Reading
Sendori, monetizing domain names
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Sendori, a Silicon Valley based company that lets you bid for traffic from other Web sites, has raised an undisclosed first round of venture capital.
The site operates in an industry that has so far been quite shady, and it’s an improvement over some past practices…. Continue Reading
Cake Financial tracks your stock portfolio, rates your performance
Cake Financial is a new service for helping any stock market investor better manage their own performance.
The San Francisco company lets you import all of your financial data from online brokerage firms into your Cake profile, then compare your performance against other investors using the… Continue Reading
Yardbarker raises another “large” seed round, for sports news site
Yardbarker, an Emeryville, Calif. company that runs a site aggregating content from sports bloggers, has raised another seed round of capital.
Yardbarker lets users rank the sports news they like — which pushes the best news to the top. We first covered the company after its… Continue Reading